Spem in Alium: Hope in Darkness (Virtual Concert)

About this event

Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and John Taverner shaped the sound of English sacred music during one of history's most turbulent periods of religious change. This collection of motets moves between grief and hope: Byrd's Tristitia et anxietas gives voice to sorrow, the Tallis/Byrd Miserere nostri pleads for mercy, Taverner's Gaude plurimum answers with joy, and Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine asks for peace.

That weight resolves in Tallis's Spem in alium — forty voices in eight choirs, surrounding the listener from every side. Its text is the program's title made sound: Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te — "I have never put my hope in any other but in thee."

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Running Time

1 hour 30 minutes, includes intermission

Doors Open

30 minutes prior to performance

Program

Thomas TALLIS – Loquebantur variis linguis

John TAVERNER – Mater Christi sanctissima

William BYRD – Tristitia et anxietas

John TAVERNER – Gaude plurimum

William BYRD – Magnificat

Thomas TALLIS – Absterge Domine

Arvo PÄRT – Da pacem Domine

Thomas TALLIS/William BYRD – Miserere nostri

Thomas TALLIS – Spem in alium

This program is in memory of Mel Belding.

From The Byrd Ensemble